Astaro Web Filtering

Controlling employee web access is essential to maximizing productivity and minimizing operational risk.

URL filter and anti-virus tools provide only limited control, requiring you to deploy and maintain multiple products – typically at significant hassle and expense.

Astaro Security Gateways unify the web filtering capabilities organizations require. The complexity and high cost associated with multiple products is eliminated.

• Inspect all Web, Instant Messaging, and Peer-to-peer traffic. Perform fast, accurate filtering using Astaro’s patent-pending Content Inspection Framework.
• Stop Viruses and Spyware. Achieve unmatched detection rates for known and unknown malware with three scan engines combined in this one product.
• Filter Web Access: Grant web access by user and time of day, and set policies based on 60 easy-to-navigate categories containing over 19 million sites. Daily updates of newly discovered websites maximize coverage.

Easy Configuration

Astaro Security Gateways seamlessly integrate all Astaro solutions with an award-winning browser-based user interface.

• Simple User Enrollment: Create and apply web access profiles to existing user groups from databases such as Active Directory, LDAP, or Radius.
• Granular Usage Reporting: Distill detailed Web usage data into real-time, easy-to-understand reports, optionally also distributed automatically by email.

Astaro’s unified approach deploys more than three times faster than “best-of-breed” point product combinations, according to a Tolly Group study.

Flexible Deployment Options

The Astaro Security Gateway is compatible with any type of network and adjusts well to your small, mid-size or large organization.

It is available as a hardware, software or virtual appliance. Each version provides the same security functionality, so you can freely choose your preferred deployment option:

• Hardware appliances: Performance-optimized networking equipment that enables you to “plug and go”.
• Software Appliances Software appliance: Turns any PC into a security appliance within minutes, offering maximum deployment flexibility.
• Virtual appliance: Ready-to-go virtual machine for VMware environments, helping you consolidating your IT infrastructure.

Technical Specifications:

• High performance HTTP, IM, P2P, and FTP gateways
• Time, user and user group based filtering
• Authentication: Local, Active Directory, eDirectory, Radius, Tacacs+, LDAP
• Single sign on: Active Directory, eDirectory
• Anti-virus: 3 engines, 300,000+ patterns, plus zero-day heuristics
• Anti-spyware: Preventing infection and hidden communication
• Content Filtering: 60+ million websites in 60 categories
• Filtering of active content such as Java, Active X, Flash, Cookies, VBScript, or JavaScript
• IM control: AIM, ICQ, MSN, Skype, Yahoo, IRC, Gtalk, Jabber
• P2P control: Bittorrent, Kazaa, Gnutella, eDonkey, WinMX, WinMY
• Web proxy cache for bandwidth savings